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Pub. Date
2017.
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Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked. Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk's life's passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. When Schomburg's collection became so big it began to overflow his house...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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"Scholars and laymen alike have long projected their fantasies onto the great expanse of the global North, whether it be as a frozen no-man's-land, an icy realm of marauding Vikings, or an unspoiled cradle of prehistoric human life. Bernd Brunner reconstructs the encounters of adventurers, colonists, and indigenous communities that led to the creation of a northern "cabinet of wonders" and imbued Scandinavia, Iceland, and the Arctic with a perennial...
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Series
Italian literature and its times volume 7
Pub. Date
©2005
Description
This volume contains introductions and historical background to numerous Italian literary works.
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Series
Backgrounds to English literature volume 2
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Provides historical, cultural, and social contexts for the study of English literature, looking at the literary genres and highlighting key writers and works from the Romantic period, and includes a time line, glossaries, and resources for further study.
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Series
World literature and its times volume 2
Pub. Date
©2000
Description
Profiles fifty African literary works, including novels, short stories, biographies, speeches, poems, and plays, providing background on the time and place in which each work is set and in which it was produced. Also includes an extensive chronology of relevant events.
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Pub. Date
2005
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"In sixteenth-century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: serve their monarch or their God. The schism between the Crown and the Catholic Church had widened from a theological dispute in the reign of Henry VIII to bitter political conflict under Elizabeth I. It was also the era of the greatest creative genius the world has ever known: William Shakespeare. How, then, was it possible that such a remarkable...
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©2003
Description
Profiles fifty important literary works with settings from the Great Depression to the Harlem Renaissance, providing plot summaries; identifying the historic events of the time periods in which the works are set and during which they were written; and examining the ways the authors explored such events in their writing.
Pub. Date
©2003
Description
Profiles forty-nine important literary works with settings from ancient times to the Harlem Renaissance, providing plot summaries; identifying the historic events of the time periods in which the works are set and during which they were written; and examining the ways the authors explored such events in their writing.
Pub. Date
©1997
Description
Contains profiles of three hundred notable literary works written from ancient times through the end of the twentieth century, relating them to the historical context in which they were written and in which they are set; arranged alphabetically by title within five historical periods.
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